Alex Beaton
Alex Beaton
Alex Beaton is, without a doubt, the most popular and successful Scottish folk singer in North America with a large and loyal following all across the continent. When we heard Alex introduced at the 2001 Edinburgh Tattoo, it was as "Alex Beaton, the world famous Scottish singer."
He is the featured performer at all of the major Scottish festivals including Pleasanton and Costa Mesa in California, Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, the Stone Mountain Highland Games in Georgia, and the Maxville and Fergus Games in Canada. Alex has recorded many popular albums and two full length video travelogues of Scotland.
With his superb talents, warm stage presence and wide repertoire you will be drawn to Alex's several performances at Seaside.
Alex Beaton's website:
http://www.alexbeaton.com/
Celtic Spring
Once you have seen and heard Celtic Spring in performance, you will never forget them! A unique and exciting blend of entertainment composed of the five Wood family children on fiddles and in dance shoes, joined by their father on the traditional Irish drum, the bodhran, Celtic Spring performs the best of the driving dance music of the Celtic lands of Scotland and Ireland, occasionally slowing the tempo with a haunting air or lyrical waltz.
Wearing colorful and ornate costumes, the children perform spirited reels, jigs and hornpipes. Through the performance some of the fiddles will be exchanged for dance shoes and you will enjoy their singular blending of music and dance!
Starting out with classical training the Wood children, Elizabeth, Deirdre, Sean, Patrick and Maire, who live in nearby in rural Ojai Valley with their parents and youngest brother, Aiden who is just seven, soon developed a love of Celtic heritage and ”violins” became “fiddles” and trips to many fiddle camps taught by the world's great Celtic fiddlers. Referred to as "The Von Trapp Family of Celtic music," Celtic Spring captures and delights their audiences. The band has played all across the nation and has appeared on TV (Good Morning America) and radio and has recorded their first CD. We welcome them to Seaside.
Celtic Spring Website:
http://www.celticspringband.com/
The Browne Sisters & George Cavanaugh
The Browne Sisters and George Cavanaugh have been performing together since they were children and have developed a rapport that is hard to beat. The silvery harmonies and beautiful arrangements of Diane, Pamela and Laura are only enriched by the addition of cousin George Cavanaugh’s mellow baritone vocals. They bring an enthusiastic following from loyal fellow Americans to homegrown Scots and Irish.
Scottish born John McLean Allan, on the field in his own right this year, often adds further excitement to Browne Sisters performances with electric guitars and bagpipes—a very pleasing but decidedly Celtic Rock quality. With five albums available from SILVER DARLINGS to BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, you will see the broad spectrum of talent they possess. One of the most popular and in demand Celtic groups to perform in the Western United States; we are pleased to welcome The Browne Sisters and George Cavanaugh back to Seaside.
The Browne Sisters Web Site
http://www.brownesisters.com/
Golden Bough
Rooted in the traditional Celtic music of Scotland and Ireland (as well as Wales, Cornwall, The Isle of Man, French Brittany and Spanish Galicia), this trio of modern day minstrels has expanded upon these ethnic styles through intriguing arrangements and original compositions, creating a sound unique unto themselves. Margie and Paul, together with a brilliant succession of talented players, have been performing as Golden Bough since 1980. Currently, fiddler Kathy Sierra rounds out the trio of instrumentals and pristine vocals. Many of us have enjoyed Golden Bough for all or most all of those years.
Golden Bough has a wide array of recordings, many available at the Seaside Games and many more on their website. We are very happy to be bringing this brilliant trio to Southern California.
Golden Bough Website:
http://www.goldenboughmusic.com/
The Wicked Tinkers
The emotion and power of the Great Highland Bagpipes and various ethnic drums dueling with an Australian aboriginal instrument and the Bronze-Age Irish Horn explode into tribal sounds of the Highlands, Ireland and the many lands graced by Gaelic people. Does this seem too good to be true? Then engage with the mesmerizing music and humorous exploits of the WICKED TINKERS and you won't stop dancing. They are able to get back to their musical roots best described as the sound of our ancestors, re-animated and re-dressed, to connect with the 21st century; a raw sound that can touch you on a deep emotional level. It's the kind of music you might have heard hundreds of years ago at a Scottish wedding, ceilidh, or around the campfire of a Highland raiding party.
The WICKED TINKERS bring their vitality and humor to stages across America. On national television January 30, THE LATE LATE SHOW with CRAIG FERGUSON and touring the U.S. for most of the year, they have made friends and fans from all over the world at some of these great Highland Games-Pleasanton, California; Enumclaw, Washington; Arlington, Texas; Estes Park, Colorado and Las Vegas, Nevada and points east. We are proud to welcome them back to the Seaside Highland Games! Like a fine, smoky Scotch whisky: a little rough around the edges but unmistakably the real thing.
"The Celtic bagrock band ... the bagpipe-and-drums answer to The Clash! ... They play like their sporrans have been set ablaze!" - Dean Bonzani, Flagstaff Live
The Wicked Tinkers Website:
http://www.wickedtinkers.com/
John McLean Allan and Stand Easy John McLean Allan is an award-winning bagpiper, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has appeared playing bagpipes in numerous feature films and television shows. You may have seen him in the Oscar-winning Best Picture, “Million Dollar Baby,” “Open Season,” “Austin Powers 2,” “West Wing,” “Primary Colors,” “Judging Amy,” “National Security” and so many others. Our schedule and his have finally clicked to where John and the guys can perform on a Seaside stage this year!
Stand Easy is a complex conglomeration of highly sought-after professional musicians who share John’s vision of a landmark fusion of commercial songwriting, Celtic music and Rock and Roll. The crowd-pleasing blend they produce will be a fine fit as they share a stage with the Wicked Tinkers.
Stand Easy’s self-titled first CD has been heard on over a hundred commercial radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Scotland and a new CD “Tainted” was only recently released. We are pleased to welcome John McLean Allan and Stand Easy to Seaside.
John Maclean Allan Website:
http://www.bagpipetamer.com/
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